Off to LaLa Land!
I'm off to LA! Tomorrow morning that is. On a 7am flight. I must really love my friends. :)

On the upside, the wonders of modern technology have allowed me to check in and print out my boarding pass in advance, so I can probably wait to leave until 5:30am instead of 5am.

Yay for thanksgiving with friends though. Definitely the way to go.

Jon referred me to fakefags.uk which is brilliant! and has nothing to do with homosexuals.

I am so unbelievably sad that Act 1 Books has been bought out. A Chicago theater institution, gone. And only a few short months after they moved into their new, larger, store. I forget when exactly they moved, but I know my mom was in town. I know that the new owners have promised to keep it the same, to maintain the "non-bookstore" aspects, but still...Act 1 was the 2nd largest theater bookstore in the country, space-wise, and the largest online theater bookstore. Plus I object to calling a bookstore Soliloquy. It's almost as bad as "from page to stage" and other hackneyed phrases. Sigh.

I think mostly I'm annoyed that I learned about it from the website before the trade papers. Even though Performink is read by "100% of Chicago theater professionals". (as a side note, I asked my boss, who never reads it, if that claim meant she was not a Chicago theater professional). I should note that Performink has a cover story on the bookstore changeover this issue, but that still postdates the website/bookstore signs. Oh, and this quote from the performink article worries me:

"The store's owner has 'absolutely no experience' with bookstores but is a Northwestern University theatre graduate with 15 years experience in Chicago's theatre community. She's not too concerned about her lack of direct book retailing experience however. 'It's not really a bookstore to me,' she said. 'I think of it as a resource for theatre professionals' To me it's not books, it's a living, breathing entity that participates in Chicago's theatre community."

The grammatical errors alone make me worry.

Enough. I will return to the blogsphere on Sunday or Monday. Don't miss me too much.
- posted by Heidi @ 9:25 PM